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Originally Posted by Sadre Spinegnawer
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If Trumpism was a CIA plot to aggregate and tag all the neo-fascists and/or gullible idiots in the country, this UFO stuff is all about tagging people who can't do probabilities.
Here is the truth. Congress feels the military is up to stuff that it wants to know about. That. Is. It.
As an avid eq player, I have a remarkable distaste for fantasy in RL. The odds of *any* extraterrestrial object crossing our paths, during the entire life of our solar system (billions of years), are only slightly better than expecting a monkey to fly out my butt.
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Mostly agree, but consider this for fun: How would one calculate those odds? We don't even know the conditions because we don't truly understand the universe yet. If intelligent life happened even just 500 million years before Jesus, and they survived, their shit could be all over the galaxy, and potentially nearby galaxies.
What are the odds that existence popped out of nothing 13.8 billion years ago, with all the mathematical constants and properties of energy and matter just right for stellar nucleosynthesis to be possible, so that billions of years later a bunch of monkeys could figure it all out? Probably slightly better than expecting a monkey to fly out of my butt. If we popped out of the universe's ass, then monkeys/aliens can pop out of our ass.
I don't see any evidence aliens have visited Earth, but I don't buy the assertion that it
has to be near impossible, either. An exponentiating, inorganic
Von Neumann that started 500 million years ago, and doesn't travel faster than light, could have been monitoring every star system in the galaxy 400 million years ago.